Genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic signatures of ageing and cold adaptation in the Antarctic clam Laternula elliptica by Victoria A. Sleight, Melody S. Clark, Meghan K. Yap-Chiongco, Frances Turner, Kevin M. Kocot

“…While epigenetics is likely involved in this process, the mechanism is unlikely to be methylation.…”
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About One Linguistic Problem by O. M. Polyakov

“…Based on the study of data dependencies, it is shown that the ternary hypothesis is most likely true for all natural languages. …”
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Complying with ethical principles in elderly and frail patients with advanced chronic kidney disease by Ana Mateus

“…Introduction: In 2016, in Europe (EU), 27.3 million people were aged > 80 (the so-called "elderly people"), and this value will likely increase up to 7 million more in ten years time. …”
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Is Birth Method Associated with Sensory Hyperreactivity in Children 3-4 Years in an Upper-Middle-Income Country? by Ann Frances Watkyns, Pamela Joy Gretschel, Helen Buchanan

“…Mothers in the vaginal birth group were younger (p≤0.001), of lower-income level (p=0.003), and more likely to be single (p=0.037). During data collection with the vaginal birth group, comprehensibility of certain items in the Short Sensory Profile-2 proved challenging for many caregivers. …”
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Age-related variation in foraging behaviour in the wandering albatross at South Georgia: no evidence for senescence. by Hannah Froy, Sue Lewis, Paulo Catry, Charles M Bishop, Isaac P Forster, Akira Fukuda, Hiroyoshi Higuchi, Ben Phalan, Jose C Xavier, Daniel H Nussey, Richard A Phillips

“…Based on movement and immersion data collected during the incubation phase of a single breeding season, and from extensive tracking data collected in previous years from different stages of the breeding cycle, we found limited evidence for age-related variation in commonly reported trip parameters, and failed to detect signs of senescent decline. …”
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Insight on AGB Mass-Loss and Dust Production from PNe by Silvia Tosi

“…We selected a sample of nine PNe from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), likely originating from single stars. By modeling their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with photoionization techniques, we successfully reproduced the observed photometric data, spectra, and chemical abundances. …”
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The Conceptual Domain of Hunting and Its Negative Representation in Love: A Cognitive-Cultural Analysis by Raheleh Gandomkar, Masoomeh Hashemi

“…As a cognitive process, metaphor objectifies mental concepts in such a tangible form that the study of human mental structure would be possible. …”
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Behavioral Biases in Investor Decision-Making: A Comparative Meta-Analysis of Behavioral Finance Research by Seyed Amir Sabet, Saeed Aibaghi esfahani, Abdolmajid Abdolbaghi Ataabadi

“…The consistency of findings across domestic and international studies underscores how fundamental behavioral biases are to financial decision-making processes.…”
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Privacy and Security in Digital Health Contact-Tracing: A Narrative Review by Shehani Pigera, Paul van Schaik, Karen Renaud, Miglena Campbell, Petra Manley, Pierre Esser

“…A total of 114 articles were retained as per the inclusion criteria, which included quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. (3) Results: Eight main themes were derived: privacy, data protection and control, trust, technical issues, perceived benefit, knowledge and awareness, social influence, and psychological factors. (4) Conclusions: Improving privacy standards and the awareness of the digital contact-tracing process will encourage the acceptance of contact-tracing apps.…”
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Monitoring Double-Cropped Extent with Remote Sensing in Areas with High Crop Diversity by Hossein Noorazar, Michael P. Brady, Supriya Savalkar, Amin Norouzi Kandelati, Mingliang Liu, Perry Beale, Andrew M. McGuire, Timothy Waters, Kirti Rajagopalan

“…The process evaluates multiple machine learning methods, including an image classification of a time-series, trained on data where cropping intensity labels were created by experts who are familiar with regional production practices. …”
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Health Justice Partnership: An Opportunity to Respond to Childhood Adversity by Sarah Loveday, Suzie Forell, Rebecca Bosward, Lingling Chen, Leanne N. Constable, Wilhelmina Ebbett, Ashraful Kabir, Hueiming Liu, Alexandra Preddy, Natalie White, Harriet Hiscock

“…Methods: A mixed-method evaluation of new HJPs was conducted across two sites in Australia. Process data were collected regarding the use of the legal services. …”
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Does food insecurity compromise diet quality among Finnish private sector service workers? by Roosa Joutsi, Hanna M. Walsh, Elviira Lehto, Tiina Saari, Ossi Rahkonen, Jaakko Nevalainen, Maijaliisa Erkkola, Jelena Meinilä

“… Abstract Objective: To investigate the association between food insecurity (FI) and diet quality in private sector service workers. Design: Data were collected via electronic questionnaires (2019) and the national register data (2018–2019). …”
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Financial and Non-Financial Information Seeking: The Role of Managing Anger and Fear in Investment Strategies and Decision-making by Vahid Oskou, Sahar Yousefizadeh, Fatemeh Asnad

“…Conversely, investors experiencing anger are less inclined to seek new information or process the information they have and are more likely to make hasty decisions.…”
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Photic-zone euxinia had a major role in the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary mass extinction by Xiangdong Wang, Stephen E. Grasby, Peter A. Cawood, He Zhao, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Makram Hedhli, Zhengyi Lyu, Guangyi Sun, Fang Hao

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Effects of land use/cover change on propagation dynamics from meteorological to soil moisture drought considering nonstationarity by Meng Dai, Ping Feng, Jianzhu Li, Xiaogang Shi, Hanye Wang

“…The findings indicated that (1) the precipitation and soil moisture series were nonstationary during the growing season from 1962 to 2018; (2) the shortest static PTm was observed for Chengde in spring and autumn and Hanjiaying in summer, and the drought propagation process in Hanjiaying was accelerating during the whole growing season; (3) under the two drought scenarios (moderate and severe), the largest static PTr of drought occurred in the spring of Sandaohezi and the summer and autumn of Hanjiaying, and the MD of Sandaohezi was more likely to trigger SMD in autumn; and (4) the LUCC had little influence on the drought PTm and PTr in the basin by changing the land use data of different periods (2000 and 2018) based on the SWAT model with fixed parameters. …”
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Where does digital sovereignty lie in building the Brazilian smart city? by Iara Schiavi, Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira, André Pasti

“…To this end, it conducts a document analysis of frameworks related to data governance and digital infrastructure in four key policy documents guiding Brazil's digitization and datafication processes. …”
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Acetabular Debonding: An Investigation of Porous Coating Delamination in Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty by Eric Robinson, Dani Gaillard-Campbell, Thomas P. Gross

“…A retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data.…”
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Analysis of Islamic Business Ethics in Buying and Selling Transactions of Agricultural Products Using a Wholesale System and Its Impact on Farmers’ Income in Tanjung Kenongo Villag... by Dzulfikar Wahyu Prasetyo, Mohamad Toha

“… When carrying out good buying and selling, it should be based on likes and mutual approval in order to receive blessings from Islamic teachings. …”
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Enhancing economic sustainability through entrepreneurial alertness as a mediator between innovativeness, proactive personality, and entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate s... by Obinna O. Ike, Emmanuel I. Okwuchukwu, Doris C. Eyisi

“…Self-reported measures of the Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire, Individual Innovativeness Scale, Proactive Personality Scale, and Entrepreneurial Alert Scale were used for the data collection. The Hayes Process Macro for SPSS Model 4, version 26 was used for data analysis. …”
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Intersecting factors of disadvantage and discrimination and their effect on daily life during the coronavirus pandemic: the CICADA-ME mixed-methods study by Carol Rivas, Amanda P Moore, Alison Thomson, Kusha Anand, Zainab Zuzer Lal, Alison Fang-Wei Wu, Ozan Aksoy

“…Strand 1: secondary data analyses We analysed existing cohort and panel data and undertook a scoping literature review, and fed these into the other strands, though they were not dependent on this. …”
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